Re: [Lcd4linux-devel] plugin_mysql, to do list.

[Xavier V. <xav...@fr...>]

Hello Michael, Martin and others

> - lcd4linux will stay pure C (as the linux kernel does)
> - lcd4linux will not use any threading library, the places where 
> asynchronous execution is necessary are rare and will be solved using 
> traditional fork() and shmem.
In fact to aswer to Martin, C++ threads are less memory-wasting than
  the C fork(), as fork copy the whole process, with its variable and
 others.

I don't know what you think about it, but maybe we can fork very early
in 3 threads: main, plugins, and soon input to make all these work
asyncronously and solve many problems we'll encounter with input. But
this will surely lead to problems with shared variables and other.

Do as you want Michael, but IMHO slitting into 3 (by now 2) threads
would be "proper". But we'll be able to troll about this after 0.10.0 is
released. ;)

> >>If you could make your Excel-Todo-Sheet up to date, this would be of 
> >>help here.
> > First, I don't use excel !!!!
> Sorry, I forgot that you already "ported" the Status list to ASCII :-)
Errr ... some people use free software like OOo instead of "crossover  
 office" ! See photo06.jpg of LinuxDay on the site, the last three  
 icons in the KDE panel : are these word, excel and powerpoint (at
 least I think) icons shortcuts to OOo components ? What can you argue
 for your defense ?

> What about plugin_wifi? Martin will neeed it, IIRC.
I began to write it last week while recompiling a 2.6.3 kernel on a
133MHz notebook (so I had time to code :D ), it was a mere copy of
plugin_netdev.c as the two files /proc/net/dev and /proc/net/wireless
are similar, but I found a syscall to retreive the informations, so I
dropped the source. I have to dig more about this function and write the
plugin --> added to my ToDo :)

Bye !
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Xavier VELLO <xav...@fr...>